Volume 62/Number 23___Southport, N.C. January 27,1993/ 50 cents
VELCRO MAN
Photo by Jim Harper
Rebarco employee Phillip Hair this week pre- Construction of the plant is running on schedule and
pared to take down the forms inside the Yaupon should be completed in August. An estimated 42
Beach sewage treatment plant on Fish Factory Road, million gallons of water will be treated annually.
Course is main complaint
Food providers have
no taste for ordinance
By Terry Pope
County Editor
New rules that could govern how
restaurants and licensed day care cen
ters serve food has local business
owners steaming.
The Brunswick County Board of
Health wants to adopt a food service
manager certification ordinance which
stresses proper food-handling tech
niques and hygiene.
The goal is to protect consumers,
but many who spoke at a public hear
ing Monday said the proposal will put
a strain on their business and employ
ees.
"You're trying to tell me how to run
my business," said Keith Rogers,
owner of the Kentucky Fried Chicken
store on Long Beach Road. "I think
what you're doing is great, but this is
scary, in a sense, to me.”
Every person who operates a food
service must have a certified manager
on duty at all times who has com
pleted the eight-hour course. It ap
plies to restaurants, coffee shops, food
stands, drink stands, cafeterias, short
order cafes, luncheonettes, school
lunchrooms and day care facilities.
Rogers said sanitation grades should
be sufficient to know if a facility
needs more monitoring by the health
department.
"This is coming pretty quick to me,"
he added. "You've got a lot of wide
open road here."
Health board chairman H. J. (Skip)
Davis said a committee studied ordi
nances from othercounties when writ
ing a draft. It will be studied again and
face a second public hearing before
the health board votes.
"The purpose of the ordinance is to
educate the people," said Davis. "It's
not a done deal. It's not etched in
stone."
Persons caught serving food with
out certification can be charged with
a misdemeanor, fined up to $500 and
face up to 30 days in jail, the proposal
Leland zoning a sensitive area
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Some Leland residents say they will
petition the town council and hope it
will drop plans to adopt a zoning
ordinance.
Council members held a public
hearing lastThursday on the proposed
ordinance and zoning map prepared
by the planning board.
The two boards will meet jointly
Thursday, February 4, at 6:30 p.m. at
Town Hall for a work session to re
view public comments.
"The petition will depend on what
it says," said councilman George
Yates. "We'll consider it and act ac
cordingly."
A final draft of the proposed ordi
nance was given to the council last
month. Although the county has ap
proved a zoning ordinance effective
July 1 for all unincorporated areas,
towns do not have to implement their
own zoning laws. Leland has had no
zoning since it became a town in
1989.
Leland's draft sets aside both com
mercial and residential districts. A
map is on display at Town Hall.
One problem is how to enforce new
zoning laws for the town's numerous
mobile home parks. If a mobile home
is moved, the ordinance allows 12
months for another unit to take its
place. Also, the town has a mixture of
homes and businesses scattered in the
same areas.
"If we don't have to be zoned, then
why go through all of this discussion
and get everybody upset?" asked resi
dent Debbie Greiner. "You don't have
to zone a place to clean it up."
Some areas mapped R-20 for resi
dential use contain both mobile homes
and businesses, said Lynette Carlisle,
a former town council member. It
places the business owners in a
"straight jacket" and forces
homeowners to "hold onto what they
have for as long as they can" for fear
the structure can't be replaced, she
said.
"You can't wave a magic wand and
have everything neatly segregated into
See Leland, page 6
‘You can't wave a
magic wand and
have everything
neatly segregated
into zoning districts.
What we have now
is inadequate.*
Lynette Carlisle
Former council member
Poly-cart issue rolls back around
M
The much-debated Poly-cart problem in Long Beach may have
finally been put to rest--at least for the time being,
The town council agreed last week to send a notice to real estate
agents and property owners asking them to roU back the cans after
trasheoliectian. If this stepisineliective,councilman Jeff Ensminger
promised to bring the issue back up in three months to discuss more
formal regulations and fines,
■While some residents complained that the carts are unsightly,
others said anordinance requiring property owners to roll back their
carts immediately would be too muchof a burden on the elderly and
out-of-town property owners,
“Old ladies would have to go out after dark to get their carta,” said
Long Beach resident Frances Allen. "Theycould trip in the sand and
Rupert Riley told the council that out-of-town property owners
are ’Very upset."
“How do you expect them to come down here after Monday and
move the carts?" Riley asked- "The consensus of opinion is leave it
atone as it is,”
However. Long Beach resident Bob Miller said that the town
owns a 20-foot right-of-way in front of everyone’s property, and that
Poly-carts do not belong on town property.
"The Poly-cart belongs to the owner of the property and it should .
be put back on his property,” Miller said. "It comes down to this -
we ate a people who dont like to be told what they should do. But®
‘Are we so bad in our restaurants right
now that we have to have this? And to
make it criminal?’
Rodney Melton
Crow’s Nest Grill
states. Counties have authority to set
their own penalties.
"Are we so bad in our restaurants
right now that we have to have this?"
asked Rodney Melton, who owns the
Crow’s Nest Grill in Southport. "And
to make it criminal?"
Persons who need certification must
take a two-day course offered through
Brunswick Community College. It
will cost about S35 per person, said
Andrew Robinson. Brunswick County
environmental health supervisor.
Persons who are hired to supervise
the storage, preparation, serving or
handling of food at an establishment
are given three months to earn a cer
tificate, which must be renewed every
three years. The non-transferable cer
tificate can be revoked if the ordi
nance is violated or if the sanitation
grade falls below 80 in two out of
three consecutive grading periods.
That could shut down a business.
Robin Schuster, owner of The
Robin's Nest, a Southport day care
See No taste, page 6
Yaupon board must
okay sewer use regs
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
The Yaupon Beach Board of Com
missioners held its first workshop
Tuesday afternoon on a proposed
24-page sewer use ordinance that
must be approved by the state before
the town can receive any state fund
ing for its sewer project.
The N. C. Department of Environ
ment Management is currendy
reviewing the proposal and is ex
pected to approve it within the next
few weeks. The board of com
missioners has until August, when
the sewer system is scheduled to be
completed, to adopt the proposal.
The ordinance includes Environ
mental Protection Agency regula
tions on what can be put into sewer
systems, and what levels of hazard
ous and toxic materials are accept
able. It includes, for example, maxi
mum permissible concentration
levels of radioactive waste, arsenic,
cyanide, lead, barium and
chloroform.
"This is a standard EPA sewer use
ordinance and 99 percent of it
should be acceptable," said Boney.
"It’s required reading and something
you need to qualify for funding."
Once the state approves the
proposal, Yaupon Beach will
‘Now that we know
the system is going
to fly, the people
who didn’t get on
board early ought
to pay their fair
share of the costs.
They’re not really
providing us with
anything we need.’
Mayor May Moore
receive the first installment of its
$3-million state loan. The town will
make two payments per year for the
next 20 years to pay for the project.
A large portion of the ordinance is
devoted to charges, surcharges and
fees for sewer service. Board mem
bers agreed that out-of-town users
should pay more than Yaupon
Beach residents, but did not stipu
See Sewer rules, page 6
OUTSIDE
Forecast
The extended forecast
calls for dry and cold
weather on Thursday,
with highs in the 40s and
lows in the 20s. Partly
cloudy skies move in Fri
day and Saturday; highs
remain in the 40s with
lows moving above the
freezing mark.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
11:11a.m. 5:08 a.m.
11:34 p.m. 5:31p.m.
Friday, January 29
11:50a.m. 5:51a.m.
-p.m. 6:13 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
12:22 am. 6:45 a.m.
12:36 pjn. 7:04 p.m.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31
1:18 a.m. 7:45 am.
1:33 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY I
2:19 a.m. 8:50 a.m.
2:36 p.m. 9:05 p.m.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
3:23 am. 9:55 am.
3:43 p.m. 10:06 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
4:25 ajn. 10:55 a.m.
4:48 p.m. 11:05 p.m.
The following adjuitments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupon Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lockwood Folly, high -22, low -8.